Music news

• The Rolling Stones in Cuba: 'It feels like history' – video

  25-03-2016 20:51
  
  The Rolling Stones talk about their concert in Havana, Cuba, with frontman Mick Jagger saying: ‘It feels like history’ being made. The band, who touched down in Havana on Thursday evening, are expecting hundreds of thousands of fans at their gig on Friday night, which they will be playing for free Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Owen Wynne obituary

  25-03-2016 19:02
  
  My father, Owen Wynne, who has died aged 89, was a celebrated countertenor committed to keeping alive the music of earlier ages and making it accessible to as wide an audience as possible.He was born and bred in Liverpool, with Welsh ancestry, son of Lydia (nee Griffiths), a milliner, and Trevor Wynne, a wool cloth salesman, and went to Oulton school. He discovered choral singing as a choirboy at All Hallows parish church, Allerton. Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Adele denies rock band James their first number one album in 18 years

  25-03-2016 19:01
  
  The singer continues her success streak in this week’s chart update.
  
  Read more

• New Music Out This Week: ZAYN, Nick Jonas, Birdy, Biffy Clyro & More!

  25-03-2016 18:53
  
  Make sure your Easter Bank Holiday is full of these crackin' new music releases...
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Liana Banks Debuts Brand New Single ‘M.O.N’

  25-03-2016 18:39
  
  With Liana’s journey clearly just beginning, expect to be seeing and hearing a lot more from the budding young superstar throughout 2016 and beyond
  
  Read more

• Letter: Sir Ken Adam’s opera debut

  25-03-2016 18:18
  
  Ken Adam made a notable debut in the opera world in 1977, designing Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West for the Royal Opera. Directed by the brilliant Piero Faggioni, the production, in which Plácido Domingo, Carol Neblett and Silvano Carroli sang at the Covent Garden premiere, was masterful in its realistic re-creation of the Californian gold rush of the 1840s. The sets were monumental and heavy, and for many revivals challenged the theatre’s technical resources. The stage crew,
  
  Read more

• Scarlatti showed me how to step into other dance cultures

  25-03-2016 18:15
  
  Choreographer Richard Alston’s newest work celebrates the music of Domenico Scarlatti and the global influences that made his music so daringly innovativeSome people think that I’m hopelessly old-fashioned because I still choreograph to music. Well, so be it. I feel deeply that the instinct to move to music is ancient and so basic that it goes way beyond any recent short-term fashions. Exploring this magical link, trying to bring it into sharper focus, has been central to my choreogr
  
  Read more

• The Guardian on Beats 1: listen to a radio show with Christine and the Queens

  25-03-2016 18:00
  
  On the final show from the Guardian’s takeover of Apple Music’s radio station, French star Héloïse Letissier and Harriet Gibsone discuss the best new musicListen to the show live at 7pm on Saturday 26 MarchMore about the Breaking Good series Every Saturday in March, the Guardian has taken command of streaming station Beats 1 on Apple Music, with Breaking Good, a show where guests at the forefront of music have played tunes by artists they think are getting it really, real
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Avelino Drops an Impressive 'Daily Duppy'

  25-03-2016 18:00
  
  Hailing from North London, the wordsmith has really been putting in work with an avid amount of releases over the past couple of years, including the joint mixtape ‘Young Fire Old Flame’
  
  Read more

• Jhené Aiko Shares Visuals for 'B's & H's'

  25-03-2016 17:52
  
  lovely Jhené Aiko is back with a brand new visual.
  
  Read more

• Llŷr Williams review – simply heavenly playing

  25-03-2016 17:46
  
  Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff
  Williams enhanced his stature as a Beethoven interpreter with this exploration of the keyboard repertoire, which combined crystal clarity with restrained finesseBeethoven cycles usually cover sonatas, but in his three-season series for Cardiff and at the Wigmore Hall, London, Llŷr Williams is embracing the composer’s whole keyboard repertoire. It creates more of a marathon factor, but for the audience it’s a means of prolonging the
  
  Read more

• The First Clip From Disney’s Live-Action ‘The Jungle Book’ Is Here

  25-03-2016 16:41
  
  This. Looks. AWESOME.
  
  Read more

• Chris Hemsworth Explains Why He Moved His Family Back To Australia

  25-03-2016 16:03
  
  Goodbye Hollywood, hello Australia.
  
  Read more

• Blood, Met and tears: the homeless singers who discovered a Passion

  25-03-2016 16:00
  
  Streetwise Opera are to perform the Matthew Passion, one of the most demanding works in the choral repertoire. In her diary, director Penny Woolcock records how the musicians, many of them living on the street, conquered the dark side of BachStreetwise Opera’s weekly workshops are open to anybody who is homeless or has experienced homelessness, as well as members of the wider community. They are run like any amateur choir, with professional workshop leaders, small public events and a big s
  
  Read more

• New band of the week: Still Parade (No 96)

  25-03-2016 15:30
  
  A tiny bedroom in Berlin seems an aptly romantic setting for one-man wonder Niklas Kramer to produce his dreamy, soft, summer popHometown: Berlin.
  The lineup: Niklas Kramer (vocals, instruments).Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Ellie Goulding Reveals All About Partying With Geordie Shore’s Scotty T

  25-03-2016 14:59
  
  But where was Gaz Beadle?
  
  Read more

• U2 to be honored as innovators at iHeartRadio Awards

  25-03-2016 14:20
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — U2 will be honored with the Innovator Award at this year's iHeartRadio Music Awards for their impact on popular culture and commitment to social causes.
  
  Read more

• Zayn Malik: Mind of Mine review – downbeat sex jams drive assured rebrand

  25-03-2016 14:17
  
  The former One Direction member’s debut, with its Frank Ocean-like falsettos, hazy production flourishes and sad-eyed sentiment, is no box-ticking exerciseDespite his protests of ignorance, the timing of Zayn Malik’s debut solo album, Mind of Mine, feels pretty significant. It comes out a year ago to the day after he released a statement confirming he’d left One Direction, the juggernaut, X Factor-created boyband that had propelled him from a slightly bored-looking teenager to
  
  Read more

• Kim Kardashian Now Has A Range Of Easter Kimojis, FYI

  25-03-2016 14:09
  
  Because why not?
  
  Read more

• Nobodies do it better: how an electronic artist unearthed YouTube’s secret singing stars

  25-03-2016 14:00
  
  As The Range, NYC beatsmith James Hinton has used YouTube performers with little to no views to voice his new album. He explains why the unknowns are the ones to watchIn the ocean depths of YouTube, far away from the Gangnam Styles and Troye Sivans, there is a lesser-spotted category of video, one whose views rarely reach double digits. The site boasts vast numbers of amateur musicians, uploading raw footage of singing or rapping, more in a surge of emotion rather than any desire to be unearthed
  
  Read more

• Clock Opera’s In Memory: the best of this week’s new music

  25-03-2016 14:00
  
  Clock Opera | Highasakite | Sundara Karma | Selena Gomez | Paul Heaton, Jacqui AbbottPICK OF THE WEEKContinue reading...
  
  Read more

• Bullion’s favourite tracks

  25-03-2016 14:00
  
  The idiosyncratic synth squiggler and Acton native empties the contents of his psychic record bag Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Shay Mitchell Reveals Her Scary Beauty Disaster

  25-03-2016 13:27
  
  So much OW.
  
  Read more

• I'm hooked on Cheryl's music, says Selena Gomez

  25-03-2016 12:21
  
  Who knew our very own Cheryl had a big fan in the form of Selena Gomez?
  
  Read more

• Miley Cyrus Celebrates Hannah Montana’s Tenth Anniversary On Instagram

  25-03-2016 12:01
  
  It's the best of both worlds.
  
  Read more

• Justin Bieber Becomes The First Artist To Reach 10 Billion Views On Vevo

  25-03-2016 11:58
  
  Baby, Baby, Baby - WOAH (Sorry).
  
  Read more

• Zayn Malik’s Finally Releases His ‘Mind Of Mine’ Album And Unveils His ‘BeFoUr’ Music Video

  25-03-2016 11:55
  
  HAPPY FRIDAY.
  
  Read more

• You Can Listen To ZAYN's 'Mind Of Mine' RIGHT NOW On MTV TRAX!

  25-03-2016 09:19
  
  Get it loaded NOW!
  
  Read more

Follow @MusicUKnws on Twitter!